Newsonomics: Fake-news fury forces Google and Facebook to change policy
Can the presidential election result be blamed on failed algorithms? Facebook had taken the brunt of that claim in the days of shock following Donald Trump’s election. Then, on Monday, Google stumbled...
View ArticleNewsonomics: The 2016 media year by the numbers, and a look toward 2017
2016 goes down as a memorable year for those in and around the media. Though audience levels have never been higher, the digital transformation burden weighed ever more heavily on news media’s back....
View ArticleAre news publishers directly liable for embedding tweets that contain images...
News publishers will now be thinking twice before embedding in articles a certain viral tweet that contains a “full color image” of Tom Brady and Danny Ainge, taken in 2016. In fact, any publisher...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Now it’s Facebook that’s facing unwanted attention
Attention. Attention! The digital cognoscenti long ago figured out that consumers of “digital” services paid not in dollars but in attention. We laughed about the monetizing of eyeballs. We joked about...
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